[Netz]

Customs has access to records from 1967????

Amazing. Interesting to read about the owner’s reaction.

[Pontiac]

What would be interesting to read is an article with a timeline marching back through the unwitting buyers of that bike all the way to the original thief.

But of course the statute of limitations has run out on that crime so the person in Japan who purchased the bike or the individual who is trying to sell the bike is out the money they paid for the bike and any money put in to restoration.

Somewhere along the way somebody must have falsified a title and that might be able to be prosecuted.

[mad_as_he$$]

There is a guy running around the West Coast buying up shovel and pan heads as fast as he can a shipping them to Asia. One of his deals is you have to have the bike checked by the cops to see if it was stolen and get a clean title to it. Guess he got burned a time or two.

[Fireone]

Not sure what records they referred to, as NCIC computer records for auto theft (motorcycles also) are purged not long after the most recent registration expires. They do not remain on the “hot list” like firearms, which stay forever.

[momincombatboots]

Sure wish I could get my moms 67 fastback returned. She lost the title in 74(my dad had just burned to death in a home fire) and never tried to get it back. She thinks the title was stolen when she left her purse in the ladies room. Such is life.

[theneanderthal]

I’ve got a chopped 67 bonny sitting in the barn.
Guess it’s time to market the thing.

[.45 Long Colt]

A local gun shop owner told me that another one of his customers had a new Colt revolver stolen in the sixties. Federal law enforcement returned it to him last year in mint condition.

[Notary Sojac]

Now that's a motorcycle. Nothing like the cartoonish Harley choppers and rice rockets. British vertical twins are and always will be the Real Thing.

[G Larry]

I’m amazed at how little changed between that 1953 Tiger 100 to my 1969 TR6-C, which I had significantly modified.

[SES1066]

It is a trip back to see those skinny tires - That contact patch on the ground would make me rather cautious.

[logi_cal869]

Too cool. But I won’t click on Yahoo links anymore. They can go to hell.